Slaves were very successful for growing sugar cane, so eventually the southern colonies called for them to be bought over. They weren’t expensive to buy, and once owned didn’t need to be paid. A slave code was bought over from the Barbados, stating that slaves had no rights and were completely owned by their owners. Even though it wasn’t intended, slavery flourished in the southern colonies. Originally Georgia and North Carolina didn’t agree with slavery.
As iron became monopolized, the well-made tools became harder and harder to come by. They became expensive and the poorer peasants have no choice to to till the soil with wooden plows. It seems as though Huan Guan is writing this to inform what has occurred and is
While many disregard this system as cruel and unfair, in reality it helped to shape America as it is today. Without the help of this system, economies would not be as developed as they are now. Unfree labor played a very important role in shaping the economy and society of colonial American through the use of indentured servants and slavery. The system of temporary servitude in the New World was established out of practices used in New England. In short, indentured servants were mainly poor British people without jobs.
So this was also a key factor in the expansion of the slave trade. The profitability of the slave trade was enormous for any job involved especially people like merchants, bankers and financiers who were very keen to invest in the development of plantations, purchase of slaves and in the building of ships to carry the slaves and goods since they made such huge profits on their original investment. But also the plantation owners who did not have to pay for the labour as the slaves obviously were forced to work with no pay could profit from this. Of course, the slaves, however, did not profit from this at all. At this time there was a need for a labour force to work the lucrative plantations and so this was the basis on which the slave trade was formed.
So, faced with the policies of Lord Liverpool’s Government, many people felt they were being treated unjustly. The increasing pace of developments in industry and agriculture caused widespread urban and rural poverty;
Landlords often borrowed large sums of money and, when serfs died or demanded higher wages, landlords could not raise money to repay creditors. If the landlord succumbed to the plague, there was no way for creditors to recover lost money. Widespread labor shortages led to a rise in labor prices. This occurred in all aspects of the economy but was especially evident in the agricultural sector. Serfs who for centuries had worked the land for little or not pay, suddenly began to demand higher wages and, increasingly, revolted against a nobility that sought to work them for lower wages of the past.
They depended on slave labor for economic stability. Without the slaves many whites believed they were not able or should be doing the backbreaking labor. The plantation owners also needed the support of the slaves in all areas of their lives such as: cooks, housecleaners, nannies and chauffeurs. The possibility of life without the slaves was devastating. Slaves were the support system of their owners.
High birth rates and heavy immigration bespoke easily available land, widely distributed among the farming population. The colonists' dispersion and ethnic diversity helped produce the fragmentation and political instability that became pronounced as populations spread westward after the French and Indian War (known in Britain as the Seven Years' War). The easy availability of land weakened American elites; lacking the ability to live off rents, gentlemen also lacked a secure economic and political base. The southern colonies had stable aristocracies, based on slave ownership; but even the greatest planters lived in fear of slave rebellions. Nor did colonial institutions create stability: governments were small, poor, unbureaucratized, and lacked permanent constabularies; neither a unified market economy nor a
The South could win by literally just outlasting the North’s advantages. Even though the North had soldiers in greater numbers, they had to leave more soldiers behind to secure their already owned land. Which became a weakness for them. The South thought slavery would be good for them. While the white men were fighting, the slaves had to continue laboring on farms or supporting the South’s war efforts.
More often than not it was a battle of wills between the slave and their master – and due to politics being dramatically unfavourable against the blacks, the masters would often abuse this political freedom in their punishment. However, this would cause a lot of expense and trouble to masters so it was soon established that slaves could cause severe inconvenience and disruption to their business if masters continued like this. Once reasonable authority was exerted by the slaves, many masters saw it easier to let them work within (comparatively) bigger perimeters. Masters tended not to push this convention as slaves had nothing to lose whereas masters had money and pride at stake if some, unspoken, boundaries weren't set. By using the same racist nicknames which whites called blacks, such as “niggers”, with each other, it ridiculed the whole scenario.